Aris Movsesijan (; born 22 March 1966) is a Serbian screenwriter, movie director, writer blogger, politician and a dentist. He most recently served as the president of the New Party.

Biography

Early life and career

Movsesijan was born in 1966 in

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, which at that time was a part of the

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. His paternal grandparents were

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and his grandfather Yeznik escaped the Ottoman

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service and walked all the way to the

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. He graduated from the Faculty of Dentistry at the University of Belgrade. He was the director of the movie '' Aporia'' (2006) and a screenwriter of the '' Svjetsko čudovište'' (2003). He also wrote the book ''Characters and writers'' and said that his wish is for it to be translated to

Political career

Movsesijan was the president of the former New Party, a

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. He has been a member of the party since 2014 and he said he joined it to fight against censorship. He received a 148th position on the combined electoral list of the

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, New Party,

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and the

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for the 2016 Serbian parliamentary election. In 2017, he said that he is sure that Serbia will one day

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that

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committed

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against the Armenians, however that currently it does not do so due to the strong

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with Turkey. On 6 October 2020, Movsesijan and Pavle Grbović, the president of the Movement of Free Citizens announced that the unification of the two political options has formally begun. Movsesijan joined the Movement of Free Citizens in November 2023.

References

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